STRIKE HARD

Strike Hard is a documentary film about a social experiment of several Queer activists who want to establish the first Croatian gay football team in order to compete in the local county league. Extreme homophobia in sports is quite widespread and it is especially visible in ‘untouchable’ bastion of Machismo - football. Because of the attitude that gays are not capable of playing football well, because they don’t have the strength and the spark needed to play, a part of the Queer scene in Zagreb decided to fight homophobia on the football field to explore, and sometimes provoke emotions, around the ‘second most important thing in the world’. They try to find more players, train and in the end win in the county league in order to encourage other gays in sports, as well as to break taboos and stereotypes about them.

Oliver Sertić is a media activist, a producer and a journalist from Zagreb. He has published and created for the press, web and radio television. The founder of the RESTART media centre which deals with production, education, exhibition and the distribution of socially engaged creative documentaries. From 2009. he is programming director of the only documentary cinema in the region - Dokukino. He directed and produced several short and feature documentaries. Currently producing three feature documentaries in different phases of production. Has cooperated and continues to cooperate with many film festivals such as Zagreb Film Festival, ZagrebDox, Vukovar Film Festival, Dokufest, DORF... as a PR, producer and advizor. He is the director and selector of Liburnia Film Festival, programmer of the Supetar Super Film Festival, also, the associate programmer of the documentary program for the Zagreb Film Festival and Human Rights Film festival. He is the co-founder of the Amateur Film Review – RAF, the Autonomous cultural centre – Attack! and the Cross-radio project.